On 11/14/2010 03:23 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 11:33:10 +0530, Sawrub wrote: > >> Running Fedora 14 x86_64, i was trying to search for a package using >> YUM. The search results lists multiple versions [Fc12, Fc13, Fc14] and >> different arch [i686 and x86_64], of which i just need it to list >> against Fc14 and x86_64. Why is this so, can we prevent this or is this >> a bad/undesirable feature in yum. > Packages, which have not been rebuilt for F-14, may still contain an > older distribution tag (such as ".fc12") in their package release name. That was clear that searching for a packages under the repos may list a package that is not of the same OS version [if its not build for that version] all i wanted was to know that why are they included in the results for a different version of OS. Since as i have read that installing packages like this ['OS version xx' packages under 'OS version yy' ] should not be encouraged. And since YUM is there to make package installation easy, practices like this should not be there there. > With the x86_64 arch you can also install and run i686 for 32-bit > compatibility. Not all i686 packages are available in the Yum repository > for x86_64, though. Just a subset. > Yes that i know, all i wanted to say here is that is it a good practice to list a package of different arch when the one for the requested is not available under the default search. Packages of different arch [except noarch] should only be listed against a special YUM option [like --enable-different-arch] or be listed under a different head in the default listing [like --Different Architecture--]. >> Stack trace : >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> [sawrub@sawrub ~]$ yum list available pidgin* > That isn't a stack trace. My bad, will keep in mind -- Saurabh Sharma Linux user number: 490644 http://sawrub-blog.blogspot.com/ Open your doors.......It's time to look beyond Windows -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
